Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Mystery Spheres Baffle NASA Scientists

Written by Super User

The riddle of the rotating spheres, that rotate completely, twice a year, on their own axis – baffle NASA scientists"

Man
and rock. Stones, which are billions of years old and rotate on their
axes, while in a vibration free environment, captured the attention of
Mr. John Hund of Pietersburg fifteen years ago. Review previously
published reports about Hund's journey to the Gestoptesfontein mine near
Ottosdal in the Northern Province where he found a stone just like the
one he read about and saw in the Klerksdorp museum.

While
playing with the stone on a very flat surface at a restaurant one day,
Hund realized it was very well balanced. He took it to the California
Space Institute at the University of California to have tests done to
determine just how well balanced it was. "It turned out that the balance
is so fine, it exceeded the limit of their measuring technology and
these are the guys who make gyro-compasses for NASA.

The
stone is balanced to within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from
absolute perfection," explains Hund. Nobody knows what these stones are.
One NASA scientist told Hund that they do not have the technology to
create anything as finely balanced as this. He said the only way that
either nature or human technology could create something so finely
balanced would be in zero gravity.

Here is an extract of Mr. Hund's letter:

The
existance of the sphere came to my attention ca 1977 while removing
endangered rock engravings from the site where pyrophyllite or
"wonderstone", as it is commonly known in the region, is mined on the
farm Gestoptefontein (meaning plugged fountain) near the little village
of Ottosdal about 110 km from Klerksdorp in South Africa's Northwest
Province.

I was intrigued by the form of the spheres,
grooves around the middle and the fact that they are as hard as steel,
while the material (pyrophyllite) in which they are found, is as soft as
limestone with a count of only 3 on the Moh scale.

As you
probably know, pyrophyllite (Al2 Si4 O10 (OH)2) is a secondary mineral
and the deposits were formed by a process of sedimentation. On
Gestoptefontein volcanic activity was responsible for the forming of
outcrops varying in height from about 10 to 100 meters. The smooth and
relatively soft surface on the slopes were ideal for the prehistoric
dwellers (San) to make their engravings of animal and abstract designs.

On
Gestoptefontein these outcrops were "swan" into huge pieces by means of
twisted steel cables running zig-zag on pulleys for several kilometers.
These blocks were then sawn by the same method into more manageable
pieces of about 500 x 500 mm. Occasionally the "sawing cable" got stuck
on one of the metal spheres embedded in the pyrophyllite.
They vary in size from " 30 – 50 mm in diameter and have perfectly
concentric grooves round the center as if they were molded. Inside the
hard "shell" some have a spongy substance, while in others it resembles
charcoal.

When only partly embedded so that they can be seen on the surface, they are not all spheres, but some are also oblong in form.

According
to Professor Andries Bisschoff of the University of Potchefstroom
(retired some years ago) they are limonite concretions. Due to the
relative scarcity of the spheres and the almost impossibility for
outsiders to obtain samples from the mine, his conclusions have not been
verified by other scientists.

It is very strange that the
grooves are always and only round the center. Mr. Credo Mutwa, a
notorious witch doctor from the city of Soweto was brought to the museum
by a TV – team some years ago and he as well as some amateur
archaeologists believed the spheres to be from outer space. It is also
hard for me to believe their theory. The original sphere exhibited in
this museum was stolen by a white sangoma (witch – doctor) - not Mr.
Mutwa, for its supposedly magic qualities and was never retrieved.

Inquiries
were made from all over the world about this phenomenon. Countries
include Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, England, USA, Norway,
France and Botswana. Institutions such as the University of South
Florida, Miles Price and Associates, the Society for Physic Advancement
(S.A), Kokkolan Kaupunchi (Finland), Esotera (Germany) Geologisches
Institut der Universiteit Pleicherwall (Germany), the Department of
Philosophy UICC (Chicago), Danfoss (Denmark), Illustreret Videnskab
(Coppenhagen), Louisiana Geological Survey, Gale Research Company
(Michigan) and Search and Research Institute of Florida also made
inquiries.

NASA was written, to confirm or deny this in 2000,
and a reply was never received. Mr. Hund's letter was removed from the
Klerksdorp Museum page, afterwards, when I checked back some time later,
and the page re-designed.

And in Sept. 2012, an interesting coincidence found on MARS, by NASA.

NASA's
Mars rover Opportunity, still active after all these years, has just
discovered a dense accumulation of puzzling little spheroids in a rock
outcrop on the Red Planet.

At least 200 have been found, and extracted out of deep rock at the
Wonderstone Silver Mine in South Africa, averaging 1-4 inches in dia.
and composed of a nickel-steel alloy that doesn't occur naturally.

Some have a thin shell about a quarter inch thick, when broken open
are filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrates into dust
upon contact with air.

A complete mystery according to Roelf Marx curator of the South
African Klerksdorp Museum, as the one he has on exhibit rotates on its
own, locked in a display case, free of outside vibrations.